I’ve been meaning to add this song to the hymnal for a while now, but for fear of actually adding such a popular song to the hymnal I’ve withheld it up until now.

The image by the NakedPastor (right) made it to my rss reader a long time ago and I placed it in the back of my mind for when I finally did pull together the courage to post the song and lyrics.

Today’s the day.

It’s the Easter weekend in only a few days, and as odd as it sounds I’m adding these lyrics as a possible entry to the Easter story, and the love that we speak of over this time.

I’ve had a few emails as of recent weeks because of posts from the other blogs I run, specifically about my brief understanding of the incarnation and my reading of Jesus’ love for us as being a love that did not hold with it any intention other than just wanting to be with us. Of course I opened myself up for a number of people to argue with me their theology of salvation, because they believe that Jesus did lurk with intent, did enter into relation with intent, that his intent was to have us recognise ourselves as sinners and to save us from our sinful nature and world. This may be a very (very very) simplistic description of their argument, but in the

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Leona Lewis Bleeding Love (C) 2007 Simco Limited exclusively licensed to Sony BMG Music Entertainment (UK) Limited

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Lyrics:

Bleeding Love
by Leona Lewis
Album: Spirit

Closed off from love
I didn’t need the pain
Once or twice was enough
And it was all in vain
Time starts to pass
Before you know it you’re frozen

But something happened
For the very first time with you
My heart melts into the ground
Found something true
And everyone’s looking round
Thinking I’m going crazy

But I don’t care what they say
I’m in love with you
They try to pull me away
But they don’t know the truth
My heart’s crippled by the vein
That I keep on closing
You cut me open and I

Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love
I keep bleeding
I keep, keep bleeding love
Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love
You cut me open

Trying hard not to hear
But they talk so loud
Their piercing sounds fill my ears
Try to fill me with doubt
Yet I know that the goal
Is to keep me from falling

But nothing’s greater than the risk that comes with your embrace
And in this world of loneliness
I see your face
Yet everyone around me
Thinks that I’m going crazy, maybe, maybe

But I don’t care what they say
I’m in love with you
They try to pull me away
But they don’t know the truth
My heart’s crippled by the vein
That I keep on closing
You cut me open and I

Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love
I keep bleeding
I keep, keep bleeding love
Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love
You cut me open

And it’s draining all of me
Oh they find it hard to believe
I’ll be wearing these scars
For everyone to see

I don’t care what they say
I’m in love with you
They try to pull me away
But they don’t know the truth
My heart’s crippled by the vein
That I keep on closing
You cut me open and I

Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love
I keep bleeding
I keep, keep bleeding love
Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love
You cut me open and I

Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love
I keep bleeding
I keep, keep bleeding love
Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love
You cut me open and I
Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love